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With the onset of modernity in twentieth-century India, new social arrangements gave rise to new forms of music-making. The musicians were no longer performing exclusively in the princely courts or in the private homes of the wealthy. Not only did the act of listening...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland. The story unfolds along crucial sites of political action under state socialism: underground...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-24
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With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-11
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A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules.A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Tim Burgess is a musical maverick and legend. Over the past three decades, he has cultivated a lyrical...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.But whenJimmy arrived in England and became Jimi,...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2019-11-05
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The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it.The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable.The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2019-11-05
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OFTHE YEAR PICK INTHE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OFTHE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-10-31
Collection :
The Legacy Trilogy
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'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice' The TimesHome Work, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-15
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At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.The property of a band, playing for...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2019-10-03
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"Looking at Terry's photographs is like gazing through a window at the most extraordinary and exciting moments of my life."ELTON JOHNElton John and iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked together for many years, taking in excess of 5,000 photographs. From intimate...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2019-10-03
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Today's musical theatre world rocks. Now that rock 'n' roll music and its offshoots, including pop, hard rock, rap, r&b, funk, folk, and world-pop music, are the standard language of musical theatre, theatre singers need a source of information on these styles,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-01
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THE LIFE STORY OFTHE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and...
Editeur :
Dialogue Books
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.S. and U.K. since the early 1960s. From bossa nova in 1960s jazz and film, through the 1970s fusion and funk scenes, the world music boom of the late 1980s and the bossa nova remix revival at the turn...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-02
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The relationship between Christian theology and music has been complex since the early days
of the Church. In the twentieth century the secularization of Western culture has led to further
complexity.The search for the soul, following Nietzsche’s declaration of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-30
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'This is not just another Bowie book. This, it's fair to say, is THE Bowie book... Essential for any fan.'THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A truly sparkling collection.'THE DAILY MAIL'More than 500 photos of immense breadth and depth.'VOGUEChosen as one of Vogue's Best David Bowie...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein, a musician of extraordinary talent who was legendary for his passionate love of life and many relationships. In this work, Mari Yoshihara reveals the deeply emotional connections Bernstein formed with two little-known...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-02
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In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes--this was Johnny Hodges. This is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-31
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What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum?What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-18
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